NEAR Shoemaker
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A primeira nave a orbitar um asteroide, Eros, e a primeira a pousar em um, em 2001; o Horizons continua a levá-la com Eros.
Abrir em 3DO voo
19 de fevereiro de 1996
Lançamento
23 de janeiro de 1998
Sobrevoo: Terra, a 6.910 km
31 de dezembro de 2009
Fim da trajetória do JPL
Com base na trajetória que o NASA JPL Horizons publica.
NEAR Shoemaker
American space probe to asteroid (1996–2001)
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), later renamed NEAR Shoemaker in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA. Launched in 1996, it was designed to study the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit over the course of a year. It was the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and successfully land on one.
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